Artificial intelligence to search for alien intelligence
How SETI project is using AI to answer the question: are we alone?
Artificial intelligence is changing life on earth, what if it allows us to find it on other worlds as well?
It sounds a bit like a science fiction premise, there is actually a serious research project focused on finding life on other planets. The project in question is Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
The SETI project aims to answer one question, “are we alone?” And it plans to answer it by scanning the cosmos for evidence of intelligent life, trying to find electronic signatures or “technosignatures.” Mainly, using radio telescopes that analyze radio signals coming from space. These radio sequences could be produced by extraterrestrial technologies.
What does artificial intelligence have to do with extraterrestrial intelligence? A new paper just published in Nature Astronomy discusses how artificial intelligence can be used to search for aliens.
“It is a new era for SETI research that is opening up thanks to machine-learning technology” — Franck Marchis, planetary astronomer, SETI Institute (source)
